EXPEDICIONES Y VIAJES
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Título: La carta de Colón anunciando el descubrimiento
Autor: Cristóbal Colón
Descripción: Las cartas que anunciaron el descubrimiento de las Indias son un conjunto de manuscritos e impresos que, a partir de 1493, hicieron públicos los hallazgos de la primera expedición capitaneada por Cristóbal Colón a lo que actualmente se denomina América.
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Título: Los cuatro viajes del Almirante y su testamento Autor: Cristóbal Colón
Descripción: En este libro se reuniones los diarios de a bordo del Almirante de la Mar Océana durante sus exploraciones en representación de los Reyes Católicos de Castilla y Aragón, en los años 1492, 1493, 1498 y 1502. Respetando la ortografía y puntuación de los antiguos documentos, en este libro podemos seguir los itinerarios de Colón, ser testigos de sus descubrimientos y comprender mejor las condiciones extremas en las que se realizaban las interminables travesías.
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Título: El descubrimiento del río de las Amazonas Autor: Fray Gaspar de Carvajal
Descripción: "Es gloria de Quito el descubrimiento del río Amazonas." Así reza una placa que se encuentra a un costado de La Catedral Metropolitana, en el centro histórico de la capital del Ecuador, desde donde partió la expedición en 1541, liderada por el capitán Francisco de Orellana, motivado por el deseo de los colonizadores españoles de localizar el país con bastas riquezas de canela y oro, El Dorado.
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Título: El descubrimiento de las Islas Galápagos Autor: Fray Tomás de Berlanga
Descripción: Este documento inédito es la transcripción de la carta a Su Magestad de Fray Tomás de Berlanga, describiendo su viaje desde Panamá a Puerto Viejo, e los trabajos que padeció en la navegación, tomado del Archivo de las Indias.
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Título: La primera vuelta al mundo de Elcano y Magallanes Autor: Antonio Pigafetta
Descripción: Este libro relata la expedición, financiada por la Corona de Castilla, de las cinco naves al mando del portugués Magallanes, que, el 10 de agosto de 1519, partía de Sevilla con el fin de buscar el camino más corto hasta las "islas de las Especias". Tres años más tarde, el 8 de septiembre de 1522, y al mando del vasco Juan Sebastián Elcano, arribaba al puerto de Sevilla la nave Victoria, con sólo dieciocho hombres.
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Título: Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias Autor: Fray Bartolomé de las Casas
Descripción: La Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias es un libro publicado en 1552 por el fraile dominico español Bartolomé de las Casas, principal defensor de los indígenas en América durante el siglo XVI, sobre los malos tratos y atrocidades cometidos contra los pueblos indígenas de América, como producto de la conquista del Nuevo Mundo por España.
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Título: Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondoAutor: Antonio Pigafetta
Descripción: La Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo fu pubblicata per la prima volta nel 1524. In essa Pigafetta, che fu tra i 18 dei 234 partiti a ultimare la circumnavigazione, racconta in un ibrido italo-veneto il lungo viaggio compiuto con Magellano.
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Título: An account of the expedition to the South Pole , Volume I Autor: Roald Amundsen
Descripción: This is a first hand account of the first successful expedition to the South Pole, written by the leader Roald Amundsen. It constructs the character of the expedition and provides insight into Amundsen's philosophy of exploration and his own professionalism, in the age of the amateur explorer.
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Título: An account of the expedition to the South Pole , Volume II Autor: Roald Amundsen
Descripción: This is a first hand account of the first successful expedition to the South Pole, written by the leader Roald Amundsen. It constructs the character of the expedition and provides insight into Amundsen's philosophy of exploration and his own professionalism, in the age of the amateur explorer.
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Título: En avion pers le Pole Nord Autor: Roald Amundsen
Descripción: Donc, au début de l’été 1918 Amundsen appareillait à destination du détroit de Bering sur un bateau construit en vue de résister aux plus rudes épreuves de la navigation arctique, le Maud. A celle époque, quoique en décroissance, la guerre sous-marine était encore redoutable ; dans la pensée de soustraire son expédition aux dangers d’une attaque, l’explorateur norvégien décida de gagner le futur théâtre de ses opérations à l’extrémité nord-est de l’Asie, en longeant la côte septentrionale de l’ancien monde, à travers l’océan polaire de Sibérie.
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Título: The Malay Archipelago, Volume IAutor: Alfred Russel Wallace
Descripción: The Malay Archipelago is a book by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace which chronicles his scientific exploration, during the eight-year period 1854 to 1862, of the southern portion of the Malay Archipelago including Malaysia, Singapore, the islands of Indonesia, then known as the Dutch East Indies, and the island of New Guinea.
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Título: The Malay Archipelago, Volume 2 Autor: Alfred Russel Wallace
Descripción: The Malay Archipelago is a book by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace which chronicles his scientific exploration, during the eight-year period 1854 to 1862, of the southern portion of the Malay Archipelago including Malaysia, Singapore, the islands of Indonesia, then known as the Dutch East Indies, and the island of New Guinea.
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Título: The Men of the Last FrontierAutor: Grey Owl
Descripción: The modern hunter has to cover more ground, largely by means of trails laboriously cut through tangled under growth, sometimes not setting over three or four effective traps in a ten-mile line. The country so far North is more broken, the rivers rougher, the climate more severe; the forest, amounting in some places to little more than a ragged jungle, offers resistances unknown to the traveller of earlier days. Steel traps have supplanted to a large extent the wooden deadfall, and the snare, and better firearms have simplified still-hunting; but game is scarcer, and harder to approach, except in very remote sections. Conditions have changed, and the terrain has shifted, but the kind of a man who follows the chase for a living remains the same; the desire to penetrate far-away hidden spots, the urge to wander, is there as it was in his prototype of two hundred years ago.
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Título: Pilgrims of the Wild Autor: Grey Owl
Descripción: This is primarily an animal story; it is also the story of two people, and their struggle to emerge from the chaos into which the failure of the fur trade, and the breaking down of the old proprietary system of hunting grounds, plunged the Indian people, and not a few whites, during the last two decades. Their means of livelihood destroyed by fire and the invasion by hordes of transient trappers and cheap fur buyers, these two, a man and a woman, newly married and with no prospects, broke loose from their surroundings taking with them all that was left to them of the once vast heritage of their people,—their equipment and two small animals as pets.
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Título: The adventures of Sajo and her beaver people Autor: Grey Owl
Descripción: First, though, you must know that all through this forest that is so dark and mysterious, with its strange animals and people, there run a great many rivers, which are used as highways not only by the Indians in their swift canoes but by many water beasts such as beaver, otter, mink and muskrats. And in the woods are countless trails, although perhaps you could never find them, on which the animals that live on land travel as though upon a road. All these creatures are continually on the move. They, as well as the humans in this land, are always busy. They have their living to find or make, and their young ones to take care of and feed. Some live alone, with no settled home, and others keep together in large numbers, having good-sized towns tunneled out beneath the ground, the different houses of each family joined, in groups, by passages. The very wisest among them, such as beaver, build themselves warm houses, store up water in which to swim, and put up large supplies of food for the winter months, working almost like men, often talking together when resting from their labors; and they all have, each in their own way, a great deal to attend to.
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